OPEC Will Not Blink First
Submitted by Arthur Berman via OilPrice.com,An OPEC production cut is unlikely until U.S. production declines by about another million barrels per day (mmbpd). OPEC won’t cut because it would...
View ArticleIn Venezuela, "Savage Suffering" Takes Hold Amid Frightening "Food Emergency"
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has been working on some “measures.”“Now that the economic emergency decree has validity, in the next few days I will activate a series of measures I had been...
View ArticleThe 4 Key Themes From Q4 Conference Calls
With Q4 earnings season drawing to a close, here is a quick recap of the key issues facing corporate CEOs and CFOs based on their conference calls as summarized by Goldman's David Kostin: 1) Company...
View ArticleKeynesianism's Long March To The Dustbin Of History
Submitted by Gary North via GaryNorth.com,We read on Wikipedia:The phrase "ash heap of history" (or "dustbin of history") figuratively refers to the place to where persons, events, artifacts,...
View ArticleHillary Clinton’s Six Foreign-Policy Catastrophes
Submitted by Eric Zuesse, investigative historian and the author, most recently, of They’re Not Even Close: The Democratic vs. Republican Economic Records, 1910-2010, and of CHRIST’S VENTRILOQUISTS:...
View ArticleWho Will Be Left Standing At The End Of The Oil War
Submitted by Charles Kennedy via OilPrice.com,This is a financial cold war - nothing more, nothing less.While there are billions of reasons to cut output, and every major producing country is reeling...
View ArticleDonald Trump Is Right: Here Are 100 Reasons Why We Need To Audit The Federal...
Submitted by Michael Snyder via The Economic Collapse blog,When a leading nominee for President gets something exactly right, we should applaud them for it. In this case, Donald Trump’s call to audit...
View ArticleYou Might Be A Tech Company If...
Via ConvergEx's Nicholas Colas,It happens at the top of every tech cycle – everyone wants to be a tech company. We’re there now. But real tech companies do more than employ a lot of programmers. For...
View ArticlePhiladelphia - Heads The Union Wins, Tails The Taxpayers Lose
Submitted by Jim Quinn via The Burning Platform blog,More Than 30 Blocks Of Fiscal Irresponsibility“Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. No one in this...
View ArticleBuffett's Fallacy - 2% Growth & Future Prosperity
Submitted by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com,Warren Buffett, in his latest annual letter to shareholders, took aim at the idea that 2% real economic growth wasn’t sufficient to create...
View Article"I'm Very Sad": Peso Collapse Triggers Despair At Mexican Border Towns
“When the Mexican peso gets a cold, Laredo sneezes,” Les Norton, head of the Downtown Merchants Association says.Despite the fact that Banxico managed to take MXN shorts out into the alley and execute...
View ArticleThe European Union Was An AMERICAN Idea
Update: After writing this post, we stumbled upon an article written in 2000 by the lead financial writer at the Telegraph, Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, noting: Declassified American government documents...
View ArticleFormer UK Ambassador To Syria: US/UK Foreign Policy Is Doomed, Even Corrupt
Authored by Eric Zuesse,Peter Ford, who was the UK’s Ambassador in Syria during 2003-2006, was asked by the BBC in their “The Big Questions” interview on February 14th, whether the current Syrian...
View Article"There's An Insurrection Coming... The American People Are Sick & Tired Of...
In a stunningly honest and frank rant, FOX News' Judge Jeanine unleashes anchor hell upon Mitt Romney and the GOP establishment hordes.She begins:"There’s an insurrection coming. Mitt Romney just...
View ArticleSILVER INVESTMENT: Switching From A Commodity To A High Quality Store Of Value
By SRSrocco ReportThe biggest trade of a lifetime will occur when the value of silver switches from a mere commodity to a high-quality store of value. Actually, it's not really a trade of a lifetime,...
View ArticleWSJ Fires Back At Trump: "He Would Rather Walk Down Fifth Avenue And Shoot...
In addition to the usual suspects (WaPo, HuffPo) over the past few days a new media nemesis has emerged for Trump: the Rupert Murdoch-owned Wall Street Journal. On Thursday, Trump posted several of...
View ArticleThe New New 'Deal' - "Markets Are Too Important To Be Left To Investors"
Submitted by Ben Hunt via Salient Partner's Epsilon Theory blog,Five Easy Pieces for the World-As-It-IsOur story so far...In the second half of 2014, export volumes in every major economy on Earth...
View Article"A Dreaded Scenario For Oil Bulls Is Becoming A Reality" Reuters Warns: U.S....
One month ago, as we pounded the table on the biggest threat to the fundamental case for oil, namely that even a modest rebound in oil prices could unleash another round of production by the...
View ArticleToronto's Notorious Ex-"Crack Mayor" Rob Ford Dies After Battle With Cancer
Toronto's notorious former mayor Rob Ford, who served between 2010 and 2014 and became world famous when he was caught on video smoking crack on multiple occasions during his term, died Tuesday after a...
View ArticleThe Current Oil Price Rally Is Reaching Its Limits
Submitted by Nick Cunningham via OilPrice.com,Oil prices have climbed by about 50 percent from their February lows, topping $40 per barrel. But the rally could be reaching its limits, at least...
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